Obituary: Eugene Holmes Shaffer Jr. / Teacher and WQED’s ‘Mr. Science’
Eugene Holmes Shaffer Jr., a lifelong educator and administrator once known as “Mr. Science” to thousands of TV-watching students in the Pittsburgh area, died Aug. 7 of cancer in St. Clair Hospital. He was 84. Mr. Shaffer was the first male elementary school teacher in the Mt. Lebanon School District, said Esther Shaffer, his wife of 57 years.

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